New Mexico Junior College Partners with OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, March 2, 2023 – New Mexico Junior College, a public junior college in Lea County, New Mexico, has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for its 24×7 Security Operations Center Service. OculusIT EYE, the SOCaaS platform designed exclusively for higher education, will enable NMJC to bolster its on-campus cybersecurity initiatives.  

With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped colleges and universities with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management, and flexible deployment options. OculusIT will provide New Mexico Junior College with fully staffed Security Operations Center services to identify and mitigate incoming threats around-the-clock.  

 “Our SOC team will work closely with other departments in New Mexico Junior College, such as IT and risk management, to ensure that security policies and procedures are followed, and the institution’s security posture is continuously improved,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements for OculusIT.  

The OculusIT EYE solution provides higher education institutions across North America with unmatched threat detection capabilities and a definitive response against cyberattacks, including incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting through security event monitoring, phone, email, ITSM ticketing, and account management support. The 24×7 SOC-as-a-Service from OculusIT was built by higher education professionals exclusively for higher education. 

Established in 1965, New Mexico Junior College is a public junior college in unincorporated Lea County, New Mexico. The college currently enrolls about 3,000 students, 70% of whom are part-time. NMJC offers over 640 courses through two of its instructional sectors: (a) Arts and Sciences and (b) Business and Technology. The college also offers certificate programs in many academic areas. For more information about New Mexico Junior College, please visit www.nmjc.edu.

OculusIT is a global, all-inclusive, managed IT, security, and cloud services company dedicated to serving the education industry. Our strategy is to offer the most cost-effective and responsive partnership that provides flexibility and nimbleness in response to economic changes and directly contributes to higher education’s ability to provide and maintain the highest quality IT services. OculusIT grows with you, adapts to you, and ensures consistency and continuity of service with a partnership, service philosophy, and cost savings unparalleled in the higher education IT services domain. Learn more at www.oculusit.com.